Visiting Fellows

The UIC Institute for the Humanities is excited to announce our 2025-2026 Visiting Fellow, the prominent activist and theorist Verónica Gago. Verónica Gago’s landmark work, Neoliberalism from Below: Popular Pragmatics and Baroque Economies (Duke University Press, 2017), in the words of one reviewer, consecrated her “as a new cartographer of popular practices, a philosopher of difference, and a pioneer of a renewed kind of philosophical anthropology of the economy.” She teaches political science at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) and critical theory and gender theory at the Universidad Nacional de San Martín (UNSAM); in recent years, she has been a visiting fellow, scholar, or chair at institutions such as Georgetown University, NYU, the International Consortium of Critical Theory, and Columbia University; she currently occupies the Chaire internationale de philosophie contemporaine at the Université Paris 8. She has also just been awarded the LASA/Oxfam Martin Diskin Memorial Lectureship, given annually to “an outstanding individual who combines commitments to activism and scholarship.”

A leading feminist activist, Verónica Gago is a founding member of the #NiUnaMenos collective and a member of the radical collective press Tinta Limón. Situated at the intersection of theory and practice, her works also include Feminist International (Verso, 2020) as well as the co-authored (with Luci Cavallero) A Feminist Reading of Debt (Pluto Press, 2021).

While in residence during the week of October 6, 2025, Professor Gago will present a public lecture as well as a seminar open to faculty and graduate students; she will also conduct a workshop for graduate students in feminist methodologies. We will communicate the exact dates and times of these events as soon as they’re available; in the meantime, we’re creating a box folder with some of her works in case you’d like to include any of them on your syllabi or reading groups next fall.